A FRUITLESS RAID
POLICE SEARCH FOR OPIUM (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A large party of detective a,nd plain clothes policemen raided Haining street in the Chinese quarter this afternoon and, for well over an hour, carried on a fruitless search for opium. Tiie arrival of the Makura. and Marama from Sydney had evidently suggested that, new supplies of the drug had been received. The thoroughness of the search was made apparent to the crowd' gathered outside by the sounds of old floorboards being pulled up. Nothing was left undone to find any opium which might have been secreted away.
While the search was proceeding the entire Chinese population of Haining street seemed to gather on the footpath opposite, and, judging by their animated chatter and the "happy expres sion on their faces, it would not take much imagination to guess that tho Celestials knew that there was nothing in the bouses boing raided.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 4
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155A FRUITLESS RAID Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 4
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